Tollywood drug-sex racket exposed

The two actresses have been identified as Saira Banu, who has played the lead role in few Telugu films, and Jyoti, who has featured as a supporting actress in many films.

While the police has not revealed the identities of those arrested, reports suggest that a woman from Uzbekistan as well as customers were held when the commissioner's task force raided an apartment in the upscale Kundan Bagh neighbourhood in the wee hours of Monday.

Kundan Bagh is a high-security area with houses of ministers, bureaucrats and VIPs.

Tollywood drug-sex racket exposed

Sources suggest that the involvement of the high and mighty in the racket cannot be ruled out.

Panjagutta Inspector of Police Ashok Chakravathy said they had recorded the statements of the actresses, who reportedly confessed to being "sex workers", while the Uzbek woman, picked up from the same house, was being questioned.

So far she has not been able to tell the purpose of her visit to India.

The woman has also not produced proper documents, the police officer said.